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alex rider versus young bond - which to start with?

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:18

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Itcouldhavebeenbeetroot · 30/01/2007 16:20

Alex rider is great - better.

TheDullWitch · 30/01/2007 16:21

Alex Ryder is a bit less densely written and more accessible.

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:21

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Marina · 30/01/2007 16:21

Ds has insisted on buying Stormbreaker at the school bookfair and I am a bit disappointed with it, given that A Horowitz is a seasoned writer. Just a bit pedestrian.
But then Charlie Higson was in the Higsons...
Presumably you are all Fowled out...

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:22

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:23

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Marina · 30/01/2007 16:23

So no Artemis Fowl or Worlds of Chrestomanci yet then? AF is great for children, am getting a bit hacked off with it myself

Itcouldhavebeenbeetroot · 30/01/2007 16:24

ds3 read them when he was about your sons age. None of mine have really got into young bond.

I think htere are some younger Horowitz Groosham Grange or something

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:24

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Marina · 30/01/2007 16:24

quite a lot of fart-related comedy in Artemis Fowl. Ds also can't relate to HP but likes every syllable of Eoin Colfer.

Itcouldhavebeenbeetroot · 30/01/2007 16:24

I think Artimis Fowl is too old - ds3 struggled with those and I hated them

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:26

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Itcouldhavebeenbeetroot · 30/01/2007 16:26

Two recomendations

Sam Hutton

Michael lawrence

PandaG · 30/01/2007 16:27

2nd one in Stormbreaker series quite grown up imo (not read the first) Has drugdealing and drug manufacture withing first few chapters (read some with a friend's 9yo the other night). I want to read it all now though, to find out what happens!

PandaG · 30/01/2007 16:29

Like Artemis Fowl too - yes it is fantasy, but lots of humour, very cleverly written.

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:29

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:29

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Itcouldhavebeenbeetroot · 30/01/2007 16:30

ds reading a great Morpogo at present - but upstainrs adn can't be arsed to go up agian

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:30

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NotAnOtter · 30/01/2007 16:33

Harry potter is not too old for him...
Has he read
Series of Unfortunate Events
DS's say 8 is fine for Alex Rider
Little White Horse...

NotAnOtter · 30/01/2007 16:34

j says CS Lewis...

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:34

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FluffyMummy123 · 30/01/2007 16:35

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Itcouldhavebeenbeetroot · 30/01/2007 16:36

qll mine hated snickett

Itcouldhavebeenbeetroot · 30/01/2007 16:36

go for Harry Potter